Saga Writing!

Over the past two weeks the children have been planning and drafting their 100 word story for the Young Writers Once Upon a Time writing competition. Today the children write up their final version on their entry form ready to be posted off before Christmas. We wish all the children good luck and hope we have a winner in our midst! 

Fantastic French

We have a French lesson every week and the children are getting more and more confident in their French speaking. The lessons are always lively and fun and the children particularly enjoy listening to French songs. Here is a weblink http://www.euroclubschools.co.uk/page41.htm to find out more about Christmas in France - there is even a link to some French Christmas songs!

Our Soup Kitchen

From cooking up the range of delicious soup recipes to cleaning up our kitchen, serving the adults to carrying out evaluations the children of Class 6 ran a very successful soup kitchen on Wednesday 22nd October. In the process they made £21.20 which all goes towards the cost of the trip to Skelton Grange they made earlier in the term. Well done everybody!!

Leeds' Children's Mayor

This week we chose our nomination for the Leeds's Children Mayor competition. The whole class had written their manifesto in previous weeks and Mrs Strickland shortlisted to get four candidates. These were Luke S, Mia A, Neve A and Chloe J.

All four children presented their manifesto to the class and then took part in a Q&A session after which we voted by secret ballot for our preferred candidate. It was a close run thing but Luke S gained the most votes. Well done Luke! His entry will now be sent off to the Leeds judges as Great Preston's candidate; the judges choose 10 finalists so fingers crossed Luke gets into the top 10!

Skelton Grange Trip

Hi Parents!

Apologies for the confusing letter - I got a little confused with the two classes I was writing letters for! Year 6 trip to Skelton is on Tuesday 30th September!! Please send the reply slip (either the original letter with the date amended or the new letter!)as soon as possible.

Thanks

2014-15 NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

The children have made a good start to Y6. They are rising to the challenges that their roles bring in setting the standard of behaviour and attitudes for the rest of the school.
Mrs F & Mrs S

Our new topic - World War 1

This half term we are going to study the World War 1 in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the war. Today we walked to the Great Preston War Memorial to stimulate our thoughts about the war. If you have any photos, medals or other artefacts relating to World War 1 we would love to see them; also if you know anything about the people named on the monument it would be great for the children to find out about them.

Paired Reading for World Book Day!

World Book Day was a fabulous vision of pyjamas at school - all the children came in their pyjamas and enjoyed their bedtime story! One of the highlights of the day was having an opportunity to read with someone from a different class, Class 6 was paired with Class 4 and they had a marvellous time sharing their reading skills with each other!

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500 Words Competition

Calling all Class 6 Writers!

Check out this competition - you are all fabulous story writers and here is a great opportunity for you to show off to the world!! I'll be running a club from next week for anybody who wants to enter!

Our Victorian Presentations

Over the past two weeks, Class 6 have been working very hard researching inventions from the Victorian Period. Working in groups, the children gathered information about the invention and its inventor from library books and the Internet. Then they created a presentation to show the whole class and try and persuade me that their invention was the most important of the Victorian age!! The children had great fun and learnt a lot about all the inventions. It was hard to choose a winner as all the children did so well, however thanks to the range of presentation techniques the most persuasive was the group promoting the Guglielmo Marconi's radio. Well done Amber, Kerrie, Kirsty and John!

A special mention went to the group working on the London Underground - as this was a particularly tricky one!! Well done Archie, Ellie, Rebecca and Aidan!

Mrs Sparks

Last week our reading volunteer Mrs Sparks kindly brought in some artefacts to support us in our learning about Victorians. It was fascinating to see some of the objects from Mrs Sparks family members - objects we wouldn't see today such as hooks for fastening buttons on boots, metal plates to polish buttons on uniforms and scarves that served as textbooks for the Navy! Thank you Mrs Sparks!!

Year 6 Workload!

I would like to say a big thank you to all the children who are regularly bringing their homework in on time and sometimes even early (Gaby)!

We have a lot of skills, knowledge and understanding to revise and learn so please try to manage your time carefully Y6. You still need to be outdoors and enjoying time with your friends and family but make sure you fit in time to complete your homework at home too. This will also help to keep your parents up to date with what you are learning about in school.

Mrs Simpson and I have been discussing the possibility of a homework detention session as unfortunately it is the same people who are not taking onboard the advice that they are given.

Thank you for working well with Mrs Batty on Friday afternoon she said you were a joy to teach, well done Year 6!
Mrs Strickland